Cuff-holder



(No Model.)

B. F. WALKER.

CUFF HOLDER.

No. 886,945. Patented July 31, 1888.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR:

BY JL ATTORNEYS.

N FETERS, phcwfilhogmphur. Washington D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN \VALKER, OF WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,945, dated July 31, 1888.

Application filed January 7. 1888. Serial No. 260,074. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WALKER, of WVarren, in the county of Warren and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a 5 new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that description of cuff-holders applicable to both mens and womens apparel,in which aspring'clauip composed of two terminally-dentatedjaws pivoted to each otherintermediatelyoftheir length and controlled by a spring which operates to keep the dentated ends of the jaws closed on the cuff, has combined with it a safety-pin for attachment of the cuffholder to the sleeve of the coat or dress; and the invention consists in a novel construction and combination of said parts of the holder,substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a coat or dress sleeve in part with separate cuff, and my improved holder as applied to secure the cuff to the sleeve, a portion of the sleeve being broken away for the exhibition of the cufiholder; and Fig. 2 is a perspective View, upon a larger scale,of the cuff-holder detached.

A and B indicate the two jaws of the clamp, arranged at a suitable distance apart and hav ingside ears,a b,intermediately ofthei rlength, through which the pivot pin or rivet 0 passes for the jaws to work upon, subject to the control ofa spring, 11, which operates to keep the rear ends of the jaws closed. These rear ends of the jaws are spread out laterally to form hands or grippersff, bent inward at their back ends, and dentated, as at e, to take hold upon theoneiongitudinal edge orside marginal portion of the detachable cuff O. The upper or outer jaw, A, is made somewhat shorter than the other jaw,B,whercby the holder is held up its full length against the cuff when gripping the latter, and the forward end of saidjaw A is bent over toform a pocket or locking-lip, g, for the point end of a single spring-pin, D, used to secure the cuff-holder to the sleeve E of the dress or coat, said pin being in hinged or looped connection, as at h, to the rear or clamping end of thejaw A.

The cuff-holder is secured to the inside of the sleeve E by the pin D being made to engage therewith and its point afterward sprung within the lip or pocket 9, so that the cuff will adjust itself in common with the sleeve in various positions of the arm. Said pin, when the holder is in place, not oulylies parallel or longitudinally with the sleeve, but also parallel or in the same longitudinal direction as the jaws A B.

Practically the holder while fastening lengthwise of the sleeve takes aside grip on the cuff, the overlapping longitudinal margin of which is slid or entered between the hands or grippers ff, where they project from the side of the jaws A B,and between which the cuff may be adjusted up or down to give any desired amount of exposure of the cuff beyond the outer end of the sleeve.

This improved cuff holder is easily adjusted with or to the coat or dress sleeve,and it is designed to be pinned near to the outer end of the sleeve, so that the ends g g of the jaws to which power is applied to open the jaws will be in front or toward the outer end of the sleeve and easy of access, thus placing the length of cuff beyond the outer end of the sleeve under the most perfect and easy control.

Havingthus described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a combined spring clamp and safety-pin cuff holder, the combination of the jaws A B, having deutated hand or gripper end portions ff, arranged to project laterally from one side of the rear ends of the jaws, and the onejaw A, having a bent-over lip or pocketg at its forward end, the pivot c, uniting thejaws intermediately of their length, the spring d, adapted to control the jaws, as set forth, and the single spring fastening-pin D, hinged, as at h, to the rear or clamping end of thejaw A and arranged to lie in the same longitudinal direction as the jaws A B and to cross their pivot c, substantially as shown and described.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WALKER.

Witnesses:

F. R. BURROUGHS, W. V. N. YATES. 

